28 Random Bits of TV Trivia You Can Recite at the Campfire If You Forgot to Bring a Spooky Story

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28 Random Bits of TV Trivia You Can Recite at the Campfire If You Forgot to Bring a Spooky Story
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What did we do before smartphones? We sat in circles and looked at burning wood. When that got old, we realized that we had to liven it up by talking to each other or maybe even breaking out an acoustic guitar.

We were never the talking or singing types, so we’d just belt out random TV facts. Fellow fire-watchers thought it was weird at first, but when the facts were this good, they all told buddy with the guitar to pipe down!

Twin Peaks

CRACKED.COM David Lynch's Twin Peaks is a cult classic that altered modern TV more than 25 years ago in 1990... ...and featured David Duchovny as a trans FBI agent that isn't played up for laughs. BUT ACTUALLY I PREFER DENISE IF YOU DON'T MIND. (also making her the FBI chief of staff in the 2017 revival.)

Do You Trust Me?

Do You Trust Me? DO YOU TRUST Y ME?L A 2007 CBS game 4 show about two contestants building up trust as host Tucker Carlson continually narcs on them. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Jon Favreau made an Truth appearance on the show. Before he was a pretty successful actor and an extremely successful director, Favreau was the clown who didn't know who Bozo the Clown was. CRACKED.COM

Homeland

CRACKED COM Halle Berry could have been the star of Homeland. The network really wanted Berry in the starring role, but the show's creators were dead set on Claire Danes (to the point that the character was named Claire in early drafts of the pilot's script).

The Puppy Channel

A retired ad executive came up with The Puppy Channel while watching the O.J. Simpson trial. CRACKED.COM Dan FitzSimons realized that he liked to channel surf while he waited for the program he was watching to come back from commercials, so he came up with a channel that showed nothing but puppies playing for 24 hours a day.

Schitt’s Creek

Alexis' signature broken wrist pose was based on the Kardashians. CRACKED.COM Actress Annie Murphy noticed the Kardashians (and other obvious influences, like Paris Hilton) would hold their purses with their elbows down, forearms out, and palms up. Alexis is in permanent purse-pose, tweaked slightly SO her plams are facing down.

Smallville

CRACKED ALLISON МАСК RECRUITED GIRLS FOR HER CULT LEADER. The Smallville actor recruited women who would be severely mistreated by NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere. She faced sex trafficking charges but negotiated a plea deal for the lesser charge of racketeering. She served 2 years in prison, and Raniere got 120 years.

Friends

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM RACHEL ON FRIENDS WAS NEARLY PLAYED BY TEA LEONI, NOT JENNIFER ANISTON. She was actually the first choice for Rachel, but she ended up saying no and Jennifer Aniston got the role.

The Muppet Babies

The Muppet Babies show introduced Scooter's twin sister, and she was never seen again. MUPPET BABIES None of the Muppet creators seem to have offered a conclusive answer when asked what happened to Skeeter, and whether or not it was the result of foul play. CRACKED.COM

Lost

Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. 0 ST CAST AWAY CRACKED.COM

Party of Five

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THERE WERE PLANS FOR SEASON SEVEN. party of five With the departures of Neve Campbell and Scott Wolf, the producers were planning on restructuring the show around Matthew Fox's character and his new family. The network, however, decided to pull the plug and end the show.

The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show CRACKED.COM NBC recorded over most of Jack Paar's tenure, and 10 full seasons of Johnny Carson's. Carson, for his part, was cool with it: he suggested all his tapes be melted down and turned into guitar picks.

Squid Game

THE TWIST OF THE OLD MAN WAS HINTED AT THROUGHOUT SQUID GAME 001 But one sneaky reveal happened when the policeman who infiltrated the game facility looked at the records book where the players' profiles started not at 001, but 002. CRACKED DCOM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Rob McElhenney had a nightmare that inspired the show. Glenn Howerton describes, The show started as a night terror, basically. A late-night sweating station. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz tried to ban breakfast. At the start of 2020, Dr. Oz told TMZ that he was going to swear off breakfast as part of the whole intermittent fasting trend, and encouraged everyone to ban their morning meal. I don't think we need to eat breakfast. That's an advertising ploy. CRACKED.GOM

Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS GRAVITY THE FALLS BIG DIPPER Hirsch said that Dipper got his name from a kid Hirsch grew up with who had bad acne that once looked like the outline of a Big Dipper on his forehead. CRACKED.COM

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS DESMOND CHIAM GOT EMOTIONAL HOLDING CAP'S SHIELD. THEFALCON WINTER SOLDIER Chiam says he was brought to tears when he got to hold the shield. Captain America was the actor's favorite superhero growing up and had a deep impact on his life. CRACKED.COM

Hannibal

Shows about mental illness HANNIBAL AUTISM/SOCIOPATHY Often believed to be on the same spectrum, this is the love story of a man with autism and an empathy disorder, and the devil himself, with some antisocial personality disorder. CRACKED.COM

Pinky and the Brain

Wisdom from PINKY AND THE BRAIN THE IRONY OF IT ALL, PINKY. YEARS OF TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, AND ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SAY 'MOO.''' - THE BRAIN reminds us that the simplest solution is almost always the best CRACKED

Bob’s Burgers

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers PRES TIFFANY HADDISH as Patricia Bob just can't relax on his vacation, and starts working pro-bono for Patricia (Haddish) at her sandwich shop. WANNA - 30 MONCY MUSTARY AND Y SOPYCE JACK PAT IN PSCHCK SALE CISANTEE CACC ES TASTILLA IC HIT HAVE WRATTER HILL TOCOLIA D 31 CHOCOLATE PESTESS HD TOWA SALAT TICKL 7 D 400 BLUE BAR COLD SLAN SPEING MIT De FRI LA РСАНОТ-ВОТТОС DV KYO et AND by INSOCHE FOTO TOURCY 32 NOT MAS CHOCTE CEORIES HOT MAYO ON CY 8 SANO SWOOD WITH MASTE TUESCY CV A CERMICREY ADOLT ST

The Queen’s Gambit

125% -increase in chess set sales following the month after the release of The Queen's Gambit. While the pandemic saw a 25% increase in sales in the United States, the show's debut made chess sets the hot new item. Goliath Games saw an increase of 1000%. GRACKED COM

Game of Thrones

1.03 billion -times the episodes of the final season of Game of Thrones were pirated while it was airing on HBO. 16.1 million viewers watched the first episode of the last season either live or later on HBO, while illegal downloads or streams amounted to a staggering 187.4 million. CRACKED.COM

Tiger King

34 million -amount of viewers who tuned in to watch Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness on Netflix in the first 10 days. CRACKED COM

Doctor Who

Iconic by random chance Doctor Who's super-long scarf A lady named Begonia Pope created the fourth Doctor's scarf by using all the wool she was given, not having any idea how long the producers wanted the scarf to be. CRACKED

The Simpsons

Iconic by random chance Homer Simpson saying s-m-r-t In the Simpsons episode Homer Goes to College, Dan Castellaneta mistakenly said s-m-r-t instead of smart, but the show's creators thought it was so funny that they kept it in the episode. CRACKED

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

ACTOR: Anthony Stewart Head in Buffy THE IDEA: Giles should become a ghost hunter. Head wanted his librarian character to have a spinoff show where he busts ghosts. The idea, he says, is based on the fact that his own home is haunted by a little girl and her nanny. CRACKED.COM

Arrested Development

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT WAS CONSTANTLY ONE STEP AWAY FROM CANCELLATION. TERO Every episode ... was like a gift, because nobody was watching it, Michael Cera has been quoted as saying. Seasons kept getting shorter and shorter, until the show was cancelled after Season 3. Only then did it become really popular on DVD. CRACKED.COM

Sherlock

GRACKED.COM SHERLOCK In the episode The Sign of Three, at the wedding of John and Mary,the song December 1963 (Oh What a Night) plays while everyone is on the dancefloor. The camera cuts to Mary after the lyric You know, I didn't even know her name which cleverly alludes to the fact that Mary isn't using her real name. That is revealed in the next episode.

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